YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT SALTBURN. 



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Sphagmmi tenellum Ehrh., liutton Eurhyuchiuin pumiliiin Wils., Kilton 



Moors. Wood. 



Pterygophylliini lucctis Sm., Easington EiirJiynchium tcesdahi Sm., Liverton 



Gill. Beck. 



iWdr/rr^ rr/y/a L., Easington Gill. Enrhync/iium sxuarizii Turn., Salt- 



HeterocladiiDii hetsroptermn Bruch, burn. 



Kilton Beck. Hyoconiiiun flagellare Dicks., Rushpool. 



Tlniidiufu blandovii \V. & M., near RhynchostegiiiDi confcritini Dicks., Salt- 



Gainford on the Tees. burn. 



Cliniaciiun dendroides L. , in fruit on RJiynchosteg'tiiin depressutii Bruch, 



Guisborough Moor. Kilton Wood. 



CaniptotJiecium ttittus Schreb. , Codhill Am.blystegii(f?i spnicei Bruch, near 



Bog. Croft-on-Tees. 



Caw/»/<?///^c/«//; //^/^jr«?//i-Huds..vSaltburn. Lininobiuni pahisti e L., Liverton Beck. 



Brachythecmtn plumosutii Sw., Kilton Hypnum straniineuiii Dicks.. Guis- 



Beck. borough Moor. 



The fine shady glens will, no doubt, be the home of many British 

 Hepaticae, a few of which were gathered during the ramble. These 

 minute plants, however, require careful microscopic examination to 

 determine them accurately, for which task time has not yet been 

 found, so the list of these must remain for a future record. 



For the Geological Section the Rev. E. M. Cole gave the 

 meeting a brief sketch of the day's ramble. The more detailed 

 account afterwards furnished by Mr. S. A. Adamson, F.G.S., secretary 

 of the section, was as follows : — The excursion was under the 

 leadership of the Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., president of the section, 

 and there was a good attendance of members. Inconvenience waij 

 experienced at times from the thick sea fog which floated landwards, 

 filling the valleys and obscuring at intervals the summits of the 

 cliffs, accompanied also by a cold, drizzling rain ; but the deter- 

 mination of enthusiastic geologists is not quenched by these matters, 

 and therefore the only impression was that the excursion was being 

 held in November or February instead of Whitsuntide. The railway 

 journey from Saltburn to Kettleness was particularly enjoyed from 

 the grandeur of the scenery passed through, and from the practical 

 evidence displayed of denudation in the deep valleys and gorges 

 excavated in the Liassic shales by the long-continued action of 

 running water. This was particularly noticeable in the neighbour- 

 hood of Lofthouse and Easington. On arrival at Kettleness the 

 train was left, and the way taken by winding paths to the shore. 

 The top of the cliff is capped by sandstones of the Lower Oolite, 

 succeeded by those beds containing bands of impure siliceous iron- 

 stone known as ' the dogger ' or ' top bed,' followed by the main bed 

 of alum shale or zone of Ammonites commimis. In the upper part 

 of the alum shale the compact calcareous nodules known as cement 

 doffgers, and used in the manufacture of hydraulic cement, are 



July 1887. 



